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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27

The public executioner at Cologne
has just died. He had his coffin built
some years ago and kept it carefully in
his rooms. In his will he asked to be
buried in his official dress. The Co
logne eXecutioner is the only one in
Germany who employs the guillotine.
In al! other places the axe or the two
handed sword is ussd.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27
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The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Race.

CHICAGO, May 23-The three-m mile race
which Edward Hanlan and Jacob Gaudaur
will row on Lake Calumet on Decoration
Day will be for $4,000 and the champion
ship of this continent. The best three
mile record yet made was that Of
Gaudaur's last year, 1854 If the
weather prove fine this record
will doubtless be beaten on Decora-
ton Day. Hanlan will row at 154 pounds,
and Gaudaur at rs Hanlan's hacker is
Peter Dwyer, of New York. J. A. st.
John, president of the Central Type
Foundry, St Louis, puts up the $1,000 for
Gaudaur. Both men are at Pullman in
training for the contest. Hanlan is being
trained by Bubear, the English oarsman,
and Gaudaur BY Fred Plaisted
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27

IT is thought that the immigration of
foreigners this year will exceed one
million. The character of the immi-
grafton has greatly changed of late
years, Germany now sends us about
one-third as many settlers as she did six
or seven years ago, and the Irish immi-
grafton is largely falling off. Ireland
and Germany have disposed of their sur
plus population for the present, Rus
STA, Austria, Poland, Hungary and Italy
show IN immense increase. OF the
newcomers, the Russians present
rather the best appearance. being tall,
vigorous and With an air Of resolution.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27
Suffering from Floods in Hungary.

PEsTH, May 24.-The recent storms which
have prevailed throughout Pennsylvania
and large portion of Southeastern Hun
gary have been more disastrous than first
reports indicated. Fifty villages and sew
eral large towns have been submerged,
and many houses completely destroyed.
Terrible suffering from hunger and expos
ure prevails throughout the stricken dis.
tricts. The city of Temesvar, in Hungary,
is already crowded with refugees, and
thousands are arriving daily. many of them
being compelled to sleep in the streets, the
city's facilities for shelter having been
overtaxed.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27

The beautiful daughter of rich
Philadelphia manufacturer recently
married clandestinely a bald, weak
eyed, malformed trance medium and
1ortune-teller, who is so repulsive in
his looks that it is said nine ministers
were applied to before one could be
found who was willing to unite the
oDunlA
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27

MRS. GRANT has just received from
the publisher u check for $33, 1884. SO as
additional profits oA the sale of Coon
eral Grants Memoirs" She has thus
received to date total of 1894, 459. SO.
The financial success of Grants book
is unprecedented in the history of lit
eratgre. Mrs. Grant has recently been
seriously ill of diphtheria, but is now
out of danger.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27

THERE are in the United States :. 1888
libraries, each with 800 volumes or
over. Of these 1881 have each 1000
volumes or over. Forty-seven have
each over so, 900 volumes, and among
the forty-seven are the public libraries
of Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, and
the libraries of Harvard, Columbia,
Yale, Cornell and Brown universities.
Iheso forty-seyen libraries aggregate
5,O26, 472 volumes, and the whole list
OF 1888 libraries aggregate 20,622, 076
Volumes or one to every three persons
in the country. In round numbers there
is one library to every 10000 persons.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27
Gladstone viii Not Visit America.

LONDON, May 2O-Mr Gladstone caused
the following to be sent out last evening":
"The statement that | have any intention
of visiting America is baseless." Inter
views with close friends of Mr.. Gladstone
subsequent to the receipt of the foregoing
dispatch elected the uniform statement
that the ex-Premier had often expressed
his wish to visit the United States should
the conditions ever become IA orable, but
had never really entertained serious inten-
ton of fulfilling his desire, and would at
his advanced age be utterly incapable Of
enduring the voyage, not tO speak Of the
tremendous strain his reception in America
would entail upon his physical powers.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27
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To OhSerYa the EcIinsa.

IhINcEToN, n. J., May .. -Preparations
are being made by Princeton College to
send scientific expedition to Russia to
observe the total eclipse of the sun on
August19 Prof. G. A. Young, the college
astronomer, and Profs. Libbey and Mcneil
will make up the party. They will sail on
June 25 on the Etruria and will return
some time in October. The observations
will be made about forty miles from Mos
cow
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27
The President Accepts an Invitation to
Visit st. Louis.

twenty-five gentlemen, representing the
business interests of st. Louis and
including representatives of all branches
of the municipal government, waited
upon the President at noon yesterday and
extended to him and Mrs. Cleveland a
cordial invitation to visit st. Louis during
the coming fall Mayor Francis made a
speech extending the invitation and the
President said he could not see why he
should visit st. Louis at the time in
dictated, about the last of September. He
said, therefore, that he would take pleas
ure in accepting their kind invitation.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27

BRoDIr, the bridge-jumper, was
once member of the New York Life
Saving Corps, and is as familiar with
wlter rs fish. He says be doesn't
Jump from bridges for nothing, but
finds it the best way he knows of to
support his wife and children.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27
SCHWARTZ AND WATT.
A New Trial Denied and They Are Sc
fenced to Life Imprisonment.

New Trial Denied and They Are Sem
fenced to Life Imprisonment.
MORRIS, Ill, May 24-Henry Schwartz
and Newton Watt were yesterday denied
a new trial, and were sentenced by Judge
Dibell to Imprisonment in the Illinois
State Penitentiary at Joliet for life,
one day to be spent in solitary
continement Defendants counsel asked
leave to file bill of exceptions. Leave
was granted to present bill by August
% The judges opinion was elaborate,
but decidedly clear. The sentence brought
tears to Schwartz's eyes, but Watts exhib-
tied no emotion over the decision. The
prisoners will remain in the Morris jail
until An0ust
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27

Mrs MARY L. BARR, who is making
a name as writer of Scotch dialect
stories, did not begiR to write until she
was fifty-four. Left without a husband
and with four children and only fifty
cents, she found, like Fanny Fern, that
she could use her pen, and has done so
to excellent advantage.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27
Another ocean Calamity.

ST. JOINS, N. F., May 24-The steamer
Plover and the schooner Trix'e H., Of
Hearts Content, collided Saturday, and
the schooner was sunk. Ten men and one
woman were rescued from the schooner by
the steamer. Two women and three men
were lost The rescued people were
brought here Yesterday BY the steamer.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27

SENATOR LELAND STANFORD has
been inspecting his big vineyard at
Vina, Tehama County, Cal. 1t is the
largest vineyard in the world, having
not less than $500 acres planted in
bearing vines, while the entire ranch
comprises $4,000 acres.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27
DESTRUCTIVE TORNADOES.
Buildings Damaged by Storms in Wiscon
Gil nd

sin and Kansas.
ELKHoRN, Wis, May a A tornado in
Sugar Creek township Sunday night tore
the roofs from several buildings and
started many from their foundations
Dwellings were injured and miles of
fences were leveled and scattered by the
storm.
CLAY CENTER, Kan, May pa tornado
struck diana, small town eight miles
west of here, Sunday evening. A new
schooLhouse was entirely demolished, two
churches badly damaged and half dozen
dwelling houses blown down. The people
generally took refuge in cellars and only
one person was seriously hurt
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27

The discovery of an aqueduct which
probably dates back to the time of King
Solomon is reported from Jerusalem,
and it is confidently anticipated that
the further excavation of it will bring
to light some extremely interesting
and valuable inscriptions.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27

A SCIENTIFIC expedition will go to
Russia from Princeton College to OBJ
serve the eclipse of the sun August 10.
Profs. Young, Mcneil and Libbey will
compose the party. The observations
will be made about fifty miles from
Moscow.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27

The oldest working-man in Boston is
said to be Martin Collins, who was born
in Nova Scotia in 1896. BY engaging
i'll trade between his home and several
ports in Maine and Massachusetts he
had, when forty years old, acquired a
snug property, but commercial crises
reduced him to poverty. He went to
Boston, found work slack and pay
small, and to fight starvation he opened
cobbler's shop, and has been a repair
er OF boots and shoes ever since. He
now lives in East Boston, and, though
over ninety-three years of age, works
industriously every day
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27

AMONG the unusual baptismal names
in the Fiftieth Congress are Jehu, Hill
airy, Adoniram, Knute, Cherubusco,
Beriah and Welty. For the first time
in ten years the House will have no
Robinson.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27

GERMANY is, to agreater extent than
is commonly suspected, land of old
people. AT the timc of the last census
there were in the cmpire no fewer than
232 persons who had completed their
hundredth year. OF these Y were men
and 100 women. The oldest person in
Germany was man in his 120th year;
the next was a man in his 11Sth year;
the next was woman in her 117th
year There were thirteen OLD fellows
of LOG and ten DANES of 107 A lady
of ll5 was returned rs being a spinster
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27
Millions of Acres to Re Thrown One

WASHINGTON, May 3D. General Land
Commissioner Sparks expresses the opin-
ion that 25,000,0O0 acres of public land will
be thrown open to settlement as result
OF carrying out the policy indicated in Sec
rotary Lamar's letter to the President in
reference to the revocation of the orders of
withdrawal made from time to time by his
predecessors
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27
The Driver Well Cases.

WASHINGTON, May 24-Decision has
been rendered in the Supreme Court in
the famous 'Driver'' well cases affecting
so many farmers in lowe. Illinois, Ohio
and Indiana. The decision affirms validity
OF the patent, and those having such wells
must pay royalty,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27

The twelve Irish constables who re-
signed rather than carry out evictions,
and who arrived in New Y ork recently,
have filed their applications to become
citizens Of the United States.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27
Verdict Against a Liouor-SelIer

ROCKFORD, Mich, May 2J.--Annice Boyl,
ted murder, and is now serving life
sentence in the Michigan penitentiary, s.
cured verdict for Sc, 800 damages vester-
day against the saloonist who SOLD ger
husband the liquor
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27

THE Cleveland Leader says: "Last
month 342 bachelors and only 1877 mar
ried men were arrested in this city by
the police Matrimony and morality
begin with the same letter.,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27
No Special Rates for Disabled Veterans.

WASHINGTON, May W-Ihe Inter-State
Commission has replied to General Blacks
request that ruling be made allowing
railroads to transport disabled veterans at
half rates to and from National soldiers
homes. The commission decides that it
has no authority under the law to grant
the reuueSt
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27

Good mules are always in demand,
and as they are more easily raised than
horses it would probably pay to make
speciality of them on large farms
where pasture is abundant.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27

B. P. SHILLABER (''Mrs. Partington'')
is seventy-three years old, and despite
his infrmities still keeps his pen busy
and drives the wolf from the door by
his industry.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27
PHILADELPHIA has ordered all bar
ber-poles from her streets.

The Garfield monument at Cleveland
will not be completed for two years
Vot
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27

STOCKTON, Cal, May 23-One hundred
and eighty tons of wool were shipped
from here Friday by steamer to San Fran
Pacific road. = ...3'~
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27

EDWIN BooTH is reported to have
made $500, 900 clear money out of this
seasons tour, and he is richer now
than ever before.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27
--..What is your namepu asked a

--"What is your nameP" asked a
teacher of boy. "My name is julie"
was the reply; whereupon the teacher
impressively said: ''You should have
said Julius, sir And now, my lad, !"
turning to another boy, .'what is
your name?" Bilious, SIR
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27

Young Wife-'I took great pains
with that cucumber salad, John, and I
hope you enjoyed it" Husband (anx-
iously)-'Tm afraid, my dear, that
L took great pains with it, too. IN T.
San.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27

An Easy Question. - Teacher
'What sort of hair had the ancient
Brltons?" Boy-"The old Britons?"
Yes" "Gray hair, of course. Gin.
me something hard. '-Teras stffinos.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27

WASHINGTON, May 20-The Treasury De-
partment has issued warrants for pension
payments to the amount of g, 0O0,0)O.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27

"A placard hung up in Russell
Sage's Wall street office reads; rNo
cigarette-smokers wanted hege,H
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-12-07
Barnyard Manures-

The trade In commercial fertilizers has
reached wonderful proportions, and agr
culturists throughout the country hail
with joy the discovery Of every new de-
post like the potash salts of Germany
and the mineral phosphates of Canada
and the Carolinas. But the expense and
delay incident TO mining, manipulation
and transportation greatly impedes the
use of these natural stores and makes the
more important every means of husband
ing the home resources.
Farmyard manure, including as it does
the liquid and solid excrements of the
farm stock and the straw and other ma
terial employed as litter, stands first on
the list OF home manurcs, and on every
farm more or less effort is made to pre-
serve this valuable accumulation. Few
farmers, however, fully appreciate the
fact that the composition of manure will
vary with the character of the animal
contributing to it, the quality of their
food and the nature and proportion of
the litter. Much also depends on the
manner in which it has been handled.
The character of the food given to the
animals is a very important factor In the
making of manure. An insufficient diet,
or one lacking in nitrogen and phos-
pilates, can yield only poor manure {;
whereas diet including foods rich in
nitrogen or phosphatcs will, on the other
hand, produce valuable manure. Pro-
gressive farmers, aware of this fact let
it enter into their calculations when they
are counting the profit or loss of various
feeds.
The oil cakes produce the richest ma
nurcs; next to these come the leguminous
foods, such as peas and beans and bran.
Glover hay produces a richer manure than
the cereal grains, while meadow hay
stands below these. The cereal grains
and roots contain about the same proper
tion of nitrogen in their dry state; the
roots. however, supply more potash,
Straw takes the lowest place as manure
Welding food. Pea and bean haulms or
straw are more valuable than is the straw
of cereals.
The treatment of the manure is exceed
ingly important. A large proportion of
nitrogen is voded in the form of urine
if, therefore, the manure Is washed by
rains or loss is sustained by drainage, the
most valuable element of the manure has
escaped. 1t is for this reason that box
manure Is so superior to that rade in an
open yard or piled in an exposed place.
An insufficient amount of litter or alb
sorbent employed Is a frequent cause of
the loss of the volatile heterogeneous ingre-
dents of urine.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-12-07
Farm Lectures.

There is work to be done, and to us 1t
seems as though the Grange could best
occupy the field. There is not enough so
cialibilty in farm life, and too often
there is wanting something to occupy the
evenings. The organization of local
clubs. or the arranging for public meet
ings, where farm and home topics may
be discussed seems to be one of the aven-
ues by which great good may be accom-
plished The grange offers much to
those who will enter, but it may still fur
Their increase its inf uence. and leave its
imprint on the public mind by taking
these matters in hand. Every Grange
might arrange series of public lectures
the coming winter, where all might be in
yited and helped The good resulting
cannot be measured. Its silent influence
will be felt for years. The worth of the
order will be more and more appreciated,
and its influence increased We commend
the subject to our many subordinate
oranges and local farmers clubs, beliey-
ing that it is field where much may be
accomplished in cultivating the social
qualities, interesting old and young, pro,
viding entertainment as well as instruc-
ton, and securing better farm work next
year There are speakers all over the
State, who being specialists, are wei
qualified to discuss farm and home topics
and their services can easily be obtained
A course of lectures in every town in
Maine this winter will help the Grange,
strengthen the clubs, build up the home
life, and give us better farms. Let the
good work be done. Maine Farmer.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-12-07
BlueberrIes as a Crop.

l.. Leighton & Son of Columbia Falls,
Washington county, do a large business
in canning blueberries. They have sub
stantial establishment furnished with the
best of equipments for doing the work.
The past season the crop was short, yet
they put up $4,000 quart cans and 800
gallon cans. The berries grew on the I'M
occupied lands in townships on the rivers
above. In the town of Beddington, on
Narraguagus river, there is vast tract of
blueberry plains. People from the towns
round about go to these plains in large
numbers for the purpose of picking ber-
ries, camping out through the berry sea-
son. The Mcssrs. Leighton have three
hundred pickcrs at work for them alone.
The price paid depends on the crop. The
past season 1t was three cents at the first
of the season, and went up to four and a
half at the close. The owners of the
land exact tax of the pickers of one
quarter Of a cent quart. A single own
er of these apparently worthless lands
has realized eleven hundred dollars In a
single year from this small tax. After
the berries are fully ripened they are
gathered with rake In manner similar
to the rakng of cranberries, so that very
fair pay is realized for the work. There
are other parties in the country who put
up berries so that a considerable revenue
is realized from the crop.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-12-07

The spectacle of the presiding officer of
so distinguished body as the state sem
ate of New York, temporarily vacating
his chair to attend a meeting of the state
grange. ought to convince those who
think the grange beneath their notice, of
the error of their Judgment and open
their eyes to the fact that the grange is a
great national organization embodying
the Iipest thought and best efforts of Il
large number of the brightest minds in
the country. These see in it an Oppor-
tunity for accomplishing more good for
humanity than can be done in any other
way. They note what has been done by
the organization in the past, and they
readily see that its possibilities have
scarcely been touched Without prophet
ic vision, they know that farmers must
organize not only for the protection of
their material Interests, but for the de-
vclopment of their intelects and the cul-
ton of their social powers. The first
specification which the declaration of
purposes enjoins upon the membership is
''to develop higher and better manhood
among ourselves" No object can be no.
bier or better. Education is the corner
stone of the grange structure. 1t teaches
its members how to become better citi-
zens; it shows them the duties and re-
sponsibilities of the position they occu-
it points out to them and demonstrates
the absolute necessity of united thought
and action, that they may protect their
varied interests from the inordinate
greed of those who seek their ruin. The
education of the grange extends to every
avenue of the farmers life, whether it
be upon the farm in the marts of trade,
in political strife. or in the quiet enjoy
ments of the social circle. And when
men of wealth and of great social and
political influence in all parts of the coun-
try idedtify themselves with such an or
ganization, and contribute of their time
and means, for its growth and prosperity,
we may rest assured that it has in itself
the element of strength which, in time,
will become a controlling power in the
land. - Rural VermOnter.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-12-07

Gan work and no play makes Jack a
dull boy" may be applied with truth to
men and women grown tall, with furrow-
ed brows and silvered locks, and those
who engage in the grange festivities,
which are so prevalent at this season of
the year, are greatly benefited by the days
and evenings of feast and speech and So
cial gaiety, cleaning not only much valu-
able information, but much renewed
strength and courage for the busy work
of another year, imbued with broader.
purer and higher sense of life's duties.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-12-07

The proprietor of the st. Adams cream
cry, Mr.. j. o. Wnslow, feeds large guam
titles of buttermilk to his cows in milk,
and to his work horses. Both cows and
horses take it readily, and Mr.. Winslow
pronounces 1t valuable feed. Mr.. C. c.
Nichols, proprietor of the Foxcrofl
creamery, has piggery near his factory
where he keeps large number of breed
ing sows. and raises pigs for sale, feeding
them chiefly on the buttermilk from the
factory.